Subject: Re: bug#63513: [PATCH] Make persist-defvar work with records and hash tables

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:58:37 +0300

> From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Joseph Turner <[email-masked]>, Adam Porter
>  <[email-masked]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,
>  [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:30:52 +0000
> 
> May it be possible to promote `persist-hash-equal' and
> `persist-copy-tree' to common subr.el functions?

Why do we need them in subr.el, i.e. preloaded?  Why cannot these
functions be autoloaded instead?